Norman Reedus, star of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” is no stranger to rumor and innuendo, with a Google search to that effect returning over half a million results. So recent reports about the impact of the sale of his home on his status with the show barely fazed the man for whom “The Reedus Effect” was coined.

Local Atlanta news sites reported in late March that Reedus put the $585,000 3-bedroom home on the market, leading some “Walking Dead” fans to assume Reedus’ character — the crossbow-wielding Daryl Dixon — would soon be killed off in the popular zombie apocalypse drama.